Wife accused of husband's murder, elaborate alibi

Updated 5:26 pm, Thursday, July 31, 2014

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Sandra Melgar is charged in the December 2012 murder of her husband Jaime Melgar. Jamie was found bound and stabbed to death in a closet of their Harris County home on Dec. 23, 2012. Sandra was found tied up in another by family members who came to celebrate the couple's wedding anniversary. Sandra told police she had blacked out in a bathroom and when she awoke she had found herself in the closet.

Sandra Melgar is charged in the December 2012 murder of her husband Jaime Melgar. Jamie was found bound and stabbed to death in a closet of their Harris County home on Dec. 23, 2012. Sandra was found tied up in

A woman has been charged in the 2012 stabbing death of her husband in their Houston home just before Christmas.

Sandra Jean Melgar, 54, has been charged with murder, according to Harris County court documents in the death of her husband Jamie Melgar, 52, on December 23, 2012 in the 9500 block of Kelsey Meadows Court.

Relatives found the body of Jaime Melgar in one closet, and his wife still alive in another closet in the house.

Melgar told authorities she blacked out in the bathroom around 1 a.m. with her husband. She said she was tied up in the closet when she woke up.

Family members discovered the pair around 4:40 p.m. when they arrived at the house to help the couple celebrate a wedding anniversary. Relatives entered through an open garage door and came out screaming for neighbors to call police a short time later, witnesses said. Neighbors speculated that the couple was a victim of a home invasion, but authorities would not elaborate on the scene, motive or cause of death.

The couple had lived in the house about six years, according to county records.